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...eldest member of the Cheever family is tied to la buoy in Buzzard's Bay. She is a fifteen foot Hereshoff sailboat which first tasted sak water in 1898. confessing to a great sentimental attachment for the skiff, Cheever doubts that he'll ever give it up. "I guess I'm sort of like an auto enthusiast with an antique...
...once flew 900 miles to help a woman who was having a difficult labor. Then an epidemic of spinal meningitis broke out on Atiu, one of the outlying islands. It was the hurricane season, and no commercial craft would risk the voyage. Dr. Davis borrowed a 35-foot sailboat and reached the island with a crew of volunteers. Ten people had died, and 100 were sick, but there were no more deaths after he went to work. "They have a different name for me on every island," says Dr. Davis, "but on Atiu I am known as 'Ocean Wanderer...
Thomas R. Davis, on his way to the School of Public Health by sailboat from New Zealand, yesterday was reported safe by Coast Guardsmen after his 48 foot ketch "Miru" bucked a blistering tropical storm...
Last week Gardner Cox himself was hidden away on an island off the Maine coast, busy with portraits and abstractions, recording trials & errors in his journal. His wife and four children were with him, and, when their father could pry them away from the sailboat races, they sat for more portraits. Fee: 60? an hour, with deductions of a cent a minute for wriggling...
Said one Chris-Craft man: "Anybody who can read English can put together one of these kits." With metals growing short, many boatmakers are switching to plastics and molded plywood hulls, which are easier to maintain and often sturdier. Sample: the 24-ft. Raven sailboat, a new racing class which has caught on fast, is now being made of Fiberglas, permanently impregnated with paint ($2,885 without sails). Light, low-priced planing sailboats are coming into their own. Simplest of all is the surfboard-like Sailfish, from...